Now that I'm in the Swiss healthcare system… no wonder Germany has a shortage of doctors and nurses. They're all here! 😂
(My dentist, substitute primary care physician, and psychiatrist are all Germans… only the primary care physician is Swiss… same for a whole bunch of the nurses…)
I am pleased to announce the imminent launch of my **post-AI chatbot**!
All the misinformation of an AI chatbot without the environmental damage, for just $9.99/month.
I mean, I say "chatbot".
In fact, whenever someone tries to use the service, it just connects them with another person who is also trying to use the service at the same time.
Like ChatRoulette, but with fewer... well, you know.
If I made a series of videos about something, what would you like?
The Standard Model? Grand unified theories? Clifford algebras? The octonions? Entropy? Category theory? Quantum logic and projective geometry? Visually beautiful math?
These would all be easy, since I've got the material prepared. I don't want to explain something brand new - at least not until I've covered some of these. Each of these topics could take at least 10 videos.
(I've got a drawing tablet now, so I'm ready to make videos where I show slides of stuff and also write while I talk. It will take some practice to do it well. I thank @Garrett for offering to pay for the tablet. It proved unnecessary, but it helped push me into action.)
Just to clarify, Qualcomm has always been open-source hostile. Even more when saving billions in OS development.
So RIP Arduino.
If you have considered applying for GNOME Foundation membership but were discouraged by our asking for a “full name,” we have news: we’ve updated our process and docs to clarify we don’t require members to submit a “legal name.”
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@Atirut great question! Membership is how contributors to GNOME can participate in the operation of the GNOME Foundation itself, including the ability to vote and run in Foundation elections for the board of directors, and to propose referenda.
Members also get a handful of other perks like a gnome.org email address and Matrix account, a hosted blog, access to our hosted video conferencing software, etc. You can read about the benefits here:
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mailbox takes a clear stance against chat control
On 14 October, the EU Council will vote on the CSA Regulation – legislation that would require email and messaging services to automatically scan private messages. Without cause, without suspicion.
Together with other European tech companies, we've signed an open letter.
More in our news article: mailbox.org/en/news/chat-contr…
#StopChatControl #DataProtection #chatcontrol #stopscanningme
Why mailbox rejects the EU's proposed chat control legislation and what you can do now – all the facts at a glance.mailbox
EU: „Chatkontrolle!“
Wir: „Alter wir sind gerade mit den BigBrotherAwards beschäftigt.“
Könntet ihr uns nen Gefallen tun und einfach mal eure Abgeordneten anrufen? Wir wissen aus Erfahrung: Das wirkt am besten. Briefpost ist auch nicht schlecht. Aber die muss jetzt schnell raus gehen.
Hier gibts Hilfe: chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/20…
Wir verlassen uns drauf, dass ihr das jetzt alle macht, ja?
Private Nachrichten scannen heißt: Grundrechte killen, Demokratie schwächen. Und Deutschland ist gerade das Zünglein an der Waage. Jeder Anruf zählt!
#Chatkontrolle #ChatkontrolleStoppen #Überwachung #BigBrotherAwards #Grundrechte
Fixed it for you, @CTVNews !
Fascists united. ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/qu… #cdnpoli #polcan #caqastrophe #redneckois
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her province and Quebec are united in their desire to resist federal overreach.The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
The Best Line Length
What’s a good maximum line length for your coding standard?
blog.glyph.im/2025/08/the-best…
#typography #UIDesign #webdesign #reading #readability
Spoiler:
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Article says 88 (but I think more like 80)
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.blog.glyph.im
RE: mastodon.social/@bimmer/115332…
This won my heart this morning.
girl are you the tower of babel because you are stacked in defiance of god and I cannot speak coherently when you go downbimmer 🎃 (Mastodon)
So Bluesky staff refuses to protect & even actively goes out of its way to suppress trans people & Palestinians but has decided... *checks notes* ... AI slop posters are a protected category
libcurl notificiations are coming in curl 8.17.0 on November 5.
#curl
eissing.org/icing/posts/curl-n…
We just merged #18432 which adds a new feature to the curl API: notifications. This is not visible in the curl command line, only for applications using libcurl.icing's blog
The European Open Source Awards marks a celebration and one of a kind recognition of open source excellence in Europe.
Open Call for Nominations: europeanopensource.academy/ope…
Call for Nominations for European Open Source Awards 2026europeanopensource.academy
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Digital accessibility is a civil right of disabled people. In the United States and other countries, civil rights are baked into laws mandating accessibility.Law Office of Lainey Feingold
This is a fantastic graph the likes of which should be hanging on the walls in schools and offices.
We all _know_ that the media coverage is skewed, and it's all understandable, but seeing a graph like this has the power of actually updating your brain a bit.
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What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?Hannah Ritchie (Our World in Data)
Je suis sûre que - si vous êtes anglophone - vous aurez bien quelques minutes pour écouter Ursula K. Le Guin vous lire un extrait de son roman "Lavinia" pour votre déjeuner.
kboo.fm/media/5399-ursula-k-le…
L'enregistrement date du printemps 2008, et j'suis toujours très émue de l'entendre, pour ma part.
A special featuring a recent reading by noted Portland author Ursula K. La Guin. She reads from her new novel, Lavinia, which is based on a secondary character mentioned briefly in Virgil's masterpiece, The Aeneid.KBOO
Today is two years since Hamas's attacks on 7 October 2023, in which about 1200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage... 💔🇮🇱
⚡ Nicht nachlassen: Innen- und Justizminister entscheiden HEUTE über die #Chatkontrolle!⏰😡
Eure Anrufe/Mails kommen "mit großem Schwung im Bundestag an", höre ich - es WIRKT! 💥💪
📞 JETZT MINISTERIEN&ABGEORDNETE ANRUFEN UND PROTESTIEREN:
fightchatcontrol.eu/de/?countr…
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.fightchatcontrol.eu
Google is Killing Open Source Android Apps
youtube.com/watch?v=wRvqdLsnsK…
Google's new developer verification requirements starting September 2026 will force ALL Android app developers to register with Google - even those avoiding ...YouTube
I wonder if we should have #GPL 4 that would cover machine learning. Something like "if this code is used to train an LLM, then the code produced by the LLM must be released under the same license". I know there are many challenges, such as effective enforcement, but if this issue remains unaddressed, I believe LLMs may become a way to evade license virality.
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@mirek that is very curious, i'm wondering how familiar the lawyers were with the actual technology.
i don't use llms too much, so i'm not familiar myself -- but to me it looks like some creative work goes into writing the prompt?
i don't use these tools too much, but just a few days ago i ended up using one and it turned out that a good way to avoid shit output is feeding in pseudocode or commanding it to make the very same sort of edits as one would otherwise make manually. it'd be surprised if someone considered this not a creative process?
Copyright licenses are not a magic spell. If LLMs are adjudicated to be derivative works of their inputs, no additional license is needed; existing GPL (or indeed, even Apache or MIT, given the lack of license text reproduction in LLM output) is fine. If LLMs are adjudicated to be fair use, no additional license will help.
Focusing on licensing is fighting the last war. Public communications and movement-building is what is needed now.
Given that there are new people to fedi, if you are interested in chinese webnovels and chinese dramas, this account sometimes organize watch parties and read alongs!
Currently, we are doing a Panguan readalong, details in this post:
blorbo.social/@watch_read_toge…
We're currently reading chapters 26-30 this week.
Feel free to join!
It's Panguan Read Along week 6! For the week of October 5-October 11, read chapters 26-30 Post your thoughts/reactions using the hashtag #PGReadAlong then tag surf and interact with others who are also reading! Rules: - Read at the pace you are c…Blorbo.Social
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… At the start of the month, the LibreOffice Conference 2025 took place in Budapest, Hungary.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Glad you are here Libreoffice and friends.
Wonderful replacement for US tech microcrap orifice spyware
So many stories of suffering in Africa are told by others; so few by the people living them. An oral history of people living through the Boko Haram conflict aims to correct this.The Continent
Inside you are two wolves
You are understaffed and they are overworked
They are discussing unionization options with the other wolves not scheduled to come in today
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